Yo-ho, yo-ho, a<i>seren</i>’s life for me!

Hitchcock, Louise A.; Maeir, Aren M.

doi:10.1080/00438243.2014.928602

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“…An early dating of the appearance of the Philistine culture at some sites supports suggestions (e.g. Hitchcock and Maeir 2014) that the appearance of the Philistines and other Sea Peoples was a complex and drawn out process, most likely not associated solely with specific, and chronologically limited, historical events.…”

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Radiocarbon Dating Shows an Early Appearance of Philistine Material Culture in Tell es-Safi/Gath, Philistia

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The Late Bronze Age to Iron Age transition in the coastal southern Levant involves a major cultural change, which is characterized, among other things, by the appearance of Philistine pottery locally produced in styles derived from outside the Levant. This transition in the coastal southern Levant is conventionally dated to the 12th century BC, based on historical and archaeological artifacts associated with the Philistine pottery. Radiocarbon dating can provide a more precise independent absolute chronology for this transition, but dating for the period under discussion is complicated by the wiggles and relatively flat slope in the calibration curve, which significantly reduce precision. An additional complication is that the stratigraphic record below and above the transition at this site, as well as at most other sites in the region, is far from complete. We thus used a variety of microarchaeological techniques to improve our understanding of the stratigraphy, and to ensure that the locations with datable short-lived materials were only derived from primary contexts, which could be related directly to the associated material culture. The 14C dates were modeled using Bayesian statistics that incorporate the stratigraphic information. Using this integrative approach, we date the appearance of the Philistine pottery in Tell es-Safi/Gath in the 13th century BC.

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confidence: 71%

Radiocarbon Dating Shows an Early Appearance of Philistine Material Culture in Tell es-Safi/Gath, Philistia

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“…The intense crosscultural contacts in the region are attested to by the discovery of Aegean-made items in foreign contexts and eastern Mediterranean-style objects in the Aegean (Cline 2009;Hitchkock & Maeir 2014;Suchowska-Ducke in press). The regular connectivity between Bronze Age communities meant that knowledge could be obtained about faraway places on a regular basis (Tartaron 2013).…”

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Connected Histories: the Dynamics of Bronze Age Interaction and Trade 1500–1100bc

Kristiansen

Suchowska-Ducke

2015

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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The Bronze Age was the first epoch in which societies became irreversibly linked in their co-dependence on ores and metallurgical skills that were unevenly distributed in geographical space. Access to these critical resources was secured not only via long-distance physical trade routes, making use of landscape features such as river networks, as well as built roads, but also by creating immaterial social networks, consisting of interpersonal relations and diplomatic alliances, established and maintained through the exchange of extraordinary objects (gifts). In this article, we reason about Bronze Age communication networks and apply the results of use-wear analysis to create robust indicators of the rise and fall of political and commercial networks. In conclusion, we discuss some of the historical forces behind the phenomena and processes observable in the archaeological record of the Bronze Age in Europe and beyond.

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“…Yasur-Landau (2010: 110) proposes that the Sea Peoples needed at least 600 men just to establish the bridgehead. On the other hand, Hitchcock and Maeir (2014) reject the simplistic notion of a massive migration or of an Aegean colonization and instead suggest that the invaders were ethnically and culturally mixed tribes of pirates. Today it is wide accepted that the organization of human resources for migration was beyond the power of a single small community (Yasur-Landau 2010: 111).…”

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How Many Philistines and Other Outside Groups Arrived in Canaan?

Luria¹

2019

JAA

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The number of the Sea People arriving into Canaan at the end of the Late Bronze Age is heavily disputed: from a few thousand to ca. 25,000. Unfortunately, the archaeological evidence cannot support or refute any of these paradigms. To this end, a model for determining population demographics during periods of scarce archaeological information is presented. The model (i) interpolates the total population during the Iron Age I, including the newly arrived peoples, based on data available from the two adjacent archaeological periods, for which there is a better demographic understanding: the Late Bronze IIB and the Iron Age II, and (ii) subtracting that result from the theoretical scenario assuming zero immigration or emigration. The above theoretical outcomes are examined alongside the archaeological and historical records of the three mentioned periods. The primary traits of the model are: 1. All the input data should be derived solely from archaeological excavations and survey reports, followed by an error estimation. 2. All the mathematical-statistical techniques used will be well recognized and frequently used within these two scientific disciplines. The final estimate for the Philistines and other non-local populations during the Iron Age I achieved here is ca. 24,000, assuming a specific error of 12%.

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Yo-ho, yo-ho, aseren’s life for me!

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

Radiocarbon Dating Shows an Early Appearance of Philistine Material Culture in Tell es-Safi/Gath, Philistia

Radiocarbon Dating Shows an Early Appearance of Philistine Material Culture in Tell es-Safi/Gath, Philistia

Connected Histories: the Dynamics of Bronze Age Interaction and Trade 1500–1100bc

How Many Philistines and Other Outside Groups Arrived in Canaan?

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